boundaries and restrictions for the sim ple goal of better understanding the world. This is not a new cultural trend; the Pythagoreans in ancient Greece had a sim ilar ethic and subculture, despite not owning com puters. They saw beauty in m athem atics and discovered m any core concepts in geom etry. That thirst for knowledge and its beneficial byproducts would continue on through history, from the Pythagoreans to Ada Lovelace to Alan Turing to the hackers of the MI T m odel railroad club. Modern hackers like Richard Stallm an and Steve Wozniak have continued the hacking legacy, bringing us m odern operating system s, program m ing languages, personal com puters, and m any other technologies that we use every day.